This fully-illustrated catalogue of the exhibition Still Life, Then and Now includes an essay by Yale professor emerita in art history C. M. Armstrong, and short texts on each of the artworks presented in the show.
Still Life, Then and Now traces the development of the European still life tradition from the sixteenth century to the present day. From its early proponents in Germany and the Low Countries, the still life genre has constantly evolved: flourishing alongside the growing collector classes of the seventeenth century, refined and expanded for the ever more engaged art public in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, transformed by the visionary and radical approaches of modern artists, and arriving today as a genre that holds a relevant and nuanced place in contemporary art.
Featured artists include historic masters Osias Beert the Elder, Willem Claesz. Heda, Bartolomeo Cavorozzi, Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Giovanni Battista Recco, Sebastian Stoskopff, Antonio Ponce, Francisco de Zurbarán and Anne Vallayer-Coster; 19th-century artists Henri Fantin-Latour, Victoria Dubourg, Odilon Redon and Giovanni Segantini; and modernist pioneers Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Pierre Bonnard, Nicolas de Staël, Philip Guston and Andy Warhol, alongside contemporary artists Poppy Jones and Asher Liftin.
Published by Robilant, 2026
Paperback, 112pp